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'NITED TA'IES 'ATENT JAMES C. HYDE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNORTO THE WEST HAVEN BUCKLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,737, datedSeptember 27, 1887.

Application filed Augnst15, 1887. Serial No. 246,939. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES C. HYDE, f \Vest Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inBuckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionwith accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon,to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which saiddrawings constitute part of this specification, and represent,-in--Figure 1, afaee view of the buckle complete; Fig. 2, the frame showingthe two ends brought together upon the tongue-bearing side; Fig. 3, alongitudinal central section through the tube surrounding the two endportions of the wire, enlarged; Fig. 4, a transverse section through thedivided side of the frame and inclosingtube at one side of thetongue-bearing recesses;

Fig. 5, atransverse section of the frame through the divided side andtube in the tongue-bearing recesses This invention relates to animprovement in that class of buckles in which the frame is made fromwire, with a tongue hinged upon a longitudinal axis, and so that thetongue. is brought to bear upon one side of the frame. In such bucklesthe frame is bent into shape from a piece of wire, the two ends broughttogether upon one side. V r

The object of my invention is to make the divided side of the frame thetongue-bearing side, and to strengthen that side and prevent thepossibility of separation at the joint.

In illustrating the invention I represent a buckle having the threetongues and as having a hook formed upon one side, because this is acommon construction of this class of buckles.

The frame is made from wire and bent into the required shape, bringingthe two ends A A of the wire together upon one side, as seen in Fig. 2,which is to be the tongue-bearing side of the frame. tions A A, I closea metal tube, B, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4, which extends the entirelength of that side. Then upon the tongue-bearing side I strikedepressions into the tube at the points where the tongues are to bear,so as to form recesses a corresponding to the respective tongues. Thesedepressions in the tube indent into the wire of the frame, and so as tointerlock the end portions, A, of the frame with the tube, and so thatthe tube and the two end portions are firmly and inseparably securedtogether. This inclosing-tube itself strengthens that side of the frame;but by the recesses a, formed in the tube and end portions, anylongitudinal movement of the sides tending to separate them is avoided.

The tongue or tongues b are represented as hinged upon a central bar, C,in the frame; but the method of hinging the said tongues is immaterialt0 the invention.

I claim- I The herein-described improvement in wire buckles, consistingof a wire frame having the two ends of the wire brought together to formthe tongue-bearing side, combined with a metal tube inclosing the saidtwo end portions of the frame, the said tube and end portions struck toform recesses a corresponding to the respective tongues, the saidrecesses indenting into the end portions of the frame, substantially asdescribed, and whereby the said tube and end portions of the framebecome interlocked.

JAMES o. HYDE.

Witn esses:

FRED O. EARLE, J. H. SHUMWAY.

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